UAE seals cloud deal with Microsoft, Core42 as Sheikh Tahnoon visits US
The deal follows Microsoft's $1.5 billion investment last year in G42 to accelerate AI development.
DUBAI — The Abu Dhabi government signed an agreement on Tuesday with Microsoft and the UAE-based cloud company Core42 during a visit by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed, the emirate's deputy ruler, to Washington, DC.
The agreement will enable "a unified, high-performance sovereign cloud computing environment capable of processing more than 11 million daily digital interactions between Abu Dhabi Government entities, citizens, residents and businesses," according to a statement published by state-run Emirati news agency WAM.
The deal was signed between Microsoft, Core42's parent G42 and Abu Dhabi's Department of Government Enablement in the presence of Sheikh Tahnoon, chairman of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council in the UAE.
Khaldoon al-Mubarak, a member of the same council and chief executive of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, also attended.
